Baltic Constitutional Party

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The Baltic Constitutional Party ( BKP ) was a Livonian political party from 1905 to 1914 . Its founding date is November 9, 1905, and it was also approved by the Livonian governor in 1905 . In 1906 it had 7,800 members, the majority of whom were based in Riga. Since 1910 she was a member of the Union of the Baltic constitutional parties.

history

After the Russian Revolution in 1905 , several political parties were founded in the Baltic Governments , which included Estonia , Livonia and Courland . These included the “Legal Order Party” and the “Baltic Constitutional Party”. Its members were mainly recruited from the wealthy Baltic aristocracy , and for the most part they were concerned with maintaining property rights and personal guarantees. The organ of the party was the Rigasche Rundschau .

Political orientation

With its basic program , the BKP stood on the basis of the four-part (general, equal, direct and secret) suffrage. It demanded democratic personal guarantees, decentralization , equal rights for different languages , social policy , income tax and stable state authority . Furthermore, the granting of local self-government was part of the party program. The founding appeal of the Baltic Constitutional Party said:

“... It is therefore high time that, after we have been given the guarantees for civil liberty according to the declared indomitable will of your Majesty, all inhabitants of our Baltic countries, regardless of class, nationality or denomination, join together for preservation and development the freedom granted to us to restore orderly conditions by way of peaceful work and to carry out contemporary reforms, in which it is particularly important to raise the welfare of the poor population classes. Guided by these points of view and permeated by the idea that not only the state but above all civil society itself has to seek and find the right way out of this confusion, a party comes together which, under the name of the Baltic Constitutional Party, the following has accepted and established basic program items. ”Among other things, it says:“ 4) Legal guarantee of freedom of conscience, the inviolability of the person, freedom of speech and writing, freedom of association and assembly; Repeal of all regulations restricting religious freedom. Equal rights for all citizens before the law, with the repeal of all previously restrictive provisions of the individual population groups, denominations and nationalities. "

- Baltic Constitutional Party

Personalities

Erik Moritz , Karl Dehio , Werner Zoege von Manteuffel , Alexander Baron Meyendorff , Oskar Brackmann , Theodor von Richter , George Armitstead , Alexander von Tobien , Friedrich von Samson-Himmelstjerna , Theodor von Richter, Friedrich von Richter and Hermann Ammende .

  • Karl Dehio

  • Werner Zoege von Manteuffel

  • Oskar Brackmann

  • George Armitstead

  • Alexander Baron von Meyendorff

literature

  • Theodor von Richter, The Activity of the Baltic Constitutional Party in 1907: Presentation by Party Secretary Th. Von Richter at the party meeting on January 18, 1908. [8]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Weber, On the Russian revolution of 1905 : writings and speeches 1905–1912, Volume 10 of the complete edition (Max Weber). 1, Schriften und Reden, editors Wolfgang J. Mommsen , Dittmar Dahlmann , Verlag Mohr Siebeck, 1989, ISBN 3168453781 [1] , p. 259 and footnote 85 a) pp. 259-260
  2. ^ The "Majority of the Baltic Constitutional Party. An editorial of the .Rig. Rundschau ”, following a polemic with a letter from“ Balt. Tagesztg. ", Düna Zeitung, No. 200 (08/29/1907) [2]
  3. ^ Max Weber, On the Russian Revolution of 1905: writings and speeches 1905–1912 pp. 159–160
  4. ↑ Jörn Burmeister, Reflecting on Strangers, Baltic States 2014, multiculturalism in the Baltic provinces [3]
  5. ↑ Amburger, Erik, "Moritz" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 18 (1997), pp. 145–146 [online version]; [4]
  6. ^ Membership in the Baltic Constitutional Party. In: Manfred Hagen , The Russian Freedom: Paths in a paradoxical topic, Verlag Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3515079025 [5] , p. 595
  7. ↑ Tobien, Alexander von; Statistician, agricultural historian [6]
  8. ↑ Chairman of the Livonian Knighthood [7]